The Holy Quran

The Holy Qur’an is a compilation of the verbal revelations given to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) over a period of about twenty three years. The Holy Qur’an is the Holy Book or the Scripture of the Muslims. It lays down for them the law and commandments, codes for their social and moral behavior, and contains a comprehensive religious philosophy. The language of the Holy Qur’an is Arabic.

This is a perfect Book; there is no doubt in it; it is a guidance for the righteous.
(Ch.2 v.3)

Convey thou in the name of thy Lord Who created, Created man from a clot of blood. Convey! And thy Lord is Most Generous, Who taught man by the pen, Taught man what he knew not. (Ch.96 v.2-6)

Verily, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian. (Ch.15 v.10)

The text of the Holy Qur’an has remained unchanged over the past 1400 years. Millions of copies of the Holy Qur’an circulating in the world today are all identical down to a single letter. And this is not strange since God says in the Holy Qur’an that He Himself will guard this book. The Holy Qur’an has been preserved by memorization and inscription. Millions of Muslims have memorized the Holy Qur’an in its entirety. All Muslims endeavour to read the entire text in Arabic at least once in their life, many complete the recitation at least once a year. Parts of the text are also read in the 5 daily prayers by Muslims throughout the world. Unlike other scriptures the original text (in Arabic) is revered and protected.

The Holy Qur’an is divided into 114 Surahs or Chapters and each Chapter consists of individual Ayaat or verses. There are in total 6,348 verses in the Holy Qur’an. The Surahs are of varying lengths, some consisting of a few lines while others run for many pages. Surah al Baqarah (Ch.2 ) is the longest Chapter comprising 287 verses while Surah al Kauthar( Ch. 108) is the shortest with only four verses

This is a perfect Book; there is no doubt in it; it is a guidance for the righteous.
(Ch.2 v.3)

That this is indeed a noble Qur’an, In a well-preserved Book, (Ch.56 v.78-79)

It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds. Is it this Divine discourse that you would reject? (Ch.56 v.81-82)

Therein are lasting commandments. (Ch.98 v.4)

Allah has sent down the best Message in the form of a Book, whose verses are mutually supporting and repeated in diverse forms…(Ch.39 v.24)